Largely avoiding a showdown with the legislature, Gov. Larry Hogan said Tuesday that he won’t try to block a package of legislation aimed at helping Baltimore after last year’s unrest highlighted problems — though he disagrees with requiring spending to tear down old buildings over several years.
Hogan, a critic of spending mandates, also said he would not veto mandated spending for a new Prince George’s County hospital center. At a news conference, the Republican governor emphasized he supports his own plans to address urban blight in Baltimore and the hospital center.
“Some of them are on good things that we actually want to spend money on,” Hogan said of legislation sent to him early. “We still don’t like the process of it, but this is what compromise is all about. This is what checks and balances are all about. Nobody gets everything that they want every single time, but I think we’re making progress.”
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